Southeast Asia

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Dewi, Kurniawati Hastuti. 2015. Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender and Networks in Post-Suharto Indonesia. Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies 14. NUS Press and Kyoto University Press. http://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/indonesian-women-and-local-politics.

Author: Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi

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Topics: Democracy / Democratization, Gender, Women, Governance, Post-Conflict Governance, Political Participation, Post-Conflict, Religion Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Indonesia

Year: 2015

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Jauhola, Marjaana. 2013. Post-Tsunami Reconstruction in Indonesia: Negotiating Normativity through Gender Mainstreaming Initiatives in Aceh. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Author: Marjaana Jauhola

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Topics: Environment, Environmental Disasters, Feminisms, Gender, Women, Gender Roles, Gender Mainstreaming, Gendered Power Relations, NGOs, Post-Conflict, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Indonesia

Year: 2013

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Khumya, Tanaradee, and Kyoko Kusakabe. 2015. “Road Development, and Changes in Livelihood and Mobility in Savannakhet, Lao PDR.” Development in Practice 25 (7): 1011–24. doi:10.1080/09614524.2015.1071782.

Authors: Tanaradee Khumya, Kyoko Kusakabe

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT

The development of roads is a major focus of development projects in the Mekong Sub-Region. This empirical study was conducted in Savannakhet, Lao PDR, to examine the benefits of road development, its impact on livelihoods, and the link between livelihoods and mobility through the concept of sense of place. The results showed that road development affected people's livelihoods, which, in turn, affected their sense of place and mobility. Analysing sense of place allows us to understand how road development can change gender norms and why more women migrate than men.

FRENCH ABSTRACT

Le développement des routes constitue un important axe des projets de développement dans la sous-région du Mékong. Cette étude empirique a été menée à Savannakhet, en RDP lao, pour examiner les avantages du développement des routes, son impact sur les moyens de subsistance et le lien entre les moyens de subsistance et la mobilité grâce au concept du sentiment d'appartenance. Les résultats ont montré que le développement des routes a eu une incidence sur les moyens de subsistance des personnes, ce qui a eu un effet sur leur sentiment d'appartenance et leur mobilité. En analysant le sentiment d'appartenance, il nous est possible de comprendre comment le développement des routes peut modifier les normes de genre et pourquoi les femmes sont plus nombreuses à migrer que les hommes.

SPANISH ABSTRACT

En los proyectos de desarrollo realizados en la subregión del Mekong, la construcción de carreteras constituye una importante área de atención. El presente estudio empírico, destinado a examinar los beneficios ligados a la construcción de carreteras, su impacto en los medios de vida y el vínculo entre medios de vida y movilidad, empleando para ello el concepto de “sentido de lugar”, se llevó a cabo en Savannakhet, rdp Lao. Los resultados dan cuenta de que la construcción de carreteras afectó los medios de vida de las personas, los cuales, a su vez, afectaron su sentido de lugar y su movilidad. El análisis del sentido de lugar permite comprender cómo la construcción de carreteras puede cambiar las normas vinculadas al género y las razones por las cuales las mujeres migran más que los hombres.

Keywords: Gender, diversity, livelihoods, migration, labor, aid

Topics: Displacement & Migration, Migration, Gender, Infrastructure Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Laos

Year: 2015

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Dunn, Kevin C. 2014. “Pussy Rioting.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 16 (2): 317–34. doi:10.1080/14616742.2014.919103.

Author: Kevin C. Dunn

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This essay explores the evolution of the Riot Grrrl movement. A feminist punk movement that profoundly impacted popular culture in the West during the 1990s, Riot Grrrl is generally regarded as an important but short-lived phenomenon. This paper explores the political relevance of Riot Grrrl within both feminism and popular culture, but also debunks the myth that Riot Grrrl faded away by the turn of the century. Exploring specific cases in Russia and Indonesia, the paper illustrates the ways in which Riot Grrrl has become a global movement and remains active today, influencing people's subjectivity and agency, helping transform people from passive consumers to active feminist cultural producers.

Keywords: popular music, punk, feminism, russia, Indonesia, Riot Grrrl

Topics: Civil Society, Feminisms, Gender, Political Participation Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe Countries: Indonesia, Russian Federation

Year: 2014

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Williams, Sarah, and Emma Palmer. 2016. “Transformative Reparations for Women and Girls at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 10 (2): 311–31. doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijw006.

Authors: Sarah Williams, Emma Palmer

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Reparations programmes are one form of response to violence. However, scholars have criticized their tendency to focus on restoring victims to the position they were in before the conflict began, usually through awarding restitution, compensation or rehabilitation measures. Instead, critics have suggested that reparations should aim to transform the societal conditions that contribute to sexual violence and the inequality of women and girls through recognition, redistribution and representation. This article builds upon this emerging scholarship to explore the potential for transformative reparations in international criminal tribunals through examining the reparations mandate and practice of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). It concludes that the ECCC’s legal and institutional framework, and the context in which it operates, limit the contribution that it can make to transformation. It is therefore important to be realistic about what can be expected from such institutions.

Keywords: reparations, transformation, Gender, international criminal justice, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Topics: Gender, Women, Girls, Justice, International Tribunals & Special Courts, Reparations, Transitional Justice Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Cambodia

Year: 2016

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Richter, Linda K. 1990. “Exploring Theories of Female Leadership in South and Southeast Asia.” Pacific Affairs, University of British Columbia 63 (4): 524–40.

Author: Linda K. Richter

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“This paper simply focuses on a more manageable group. In doing so, it (1) explores some of the key variables in the political prominence of Asian women and tries to see if any of these variables are distinctive to women; (2) assesses what, if any, advantages or disadvantages women have as women in leadership roles in south and southeast Asia; (3) determines what impact, if any, women characteristically have as women in the politics of these regions; and (4) predicts the prospects for future female leadership in these regions” (Richter, 1990, p. 252).

Topics: Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Political Participation Regions: Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia

Year: 1990

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Salim, Agus. 2016. “Gender Responsive Budgeting: State and Civil Society Initiatives at National and Sub-National Levels in Indonesia.” In Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting, edited by Cecilia Ng, 179–93. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace 22. Springer International Publishing

Author: Agus Salim

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The Indonesian government began the process of institutionalizing gender concerns with the presidential instruction on gender mainstreaming in 2000. A regulatory framework governs the GRB initiative at the national and sub-national levels including both government and civil society actors. Over the past decade, GRB initiatives have been conducted by both government and civil society at both national and sub-national levels. Cooperation between civil society and government, while not without its tensions, has been critical to the promotion of gender responsive planning and budgeting in Indonesia.

Keywords: gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting, National strategy

Topics: Civil Society, Gender, Gender Budgeting, Governance Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Indonesia

Year: 2016

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Ronolo, Herculano S. 2016. “Malaybalay City Integrated Survey System: A Tool for Gender Responsive Budgeting in Local Governance.” In Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting, edited by Cecilia Ng, 123–39. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace 22. Springer International Publishing. 

Author: Herculano S. Ronolo

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Malaybalay city in the Philippines piloted a data-based system of local governance that is also useful as a tool for gender responsive budgeting. By collecting sex-disaggregated data about household membership, nutrition levels, education, income and other parameters of poverty, the system allows local government to identify gender issues and subsequently justify budgeting for social initiatives such as education, health and gender-sensitive livelihood training. The process of data gathering was also made gender sensitive and empowering by training the barangay health workers, many of them women, in collecting and processing the related information. Such an analysis allows us to ensure that budgets are not merely gender sensitive, but also accountable.

Keywords: MISS, Sex-disaggregated data, gender awareness, Barangay workers

Topics: Education, Gender, Gender Balance, Gender Budgeting, Health, Livelihoods Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia

Year: 2016

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Kamarudin, Shariza. 2016. “Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting in Penang: The People-Oriented Model.” In Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting, edited by Cecilia Ng, 55–79. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace 22. Springer International Publishing. 

Author: Shariza Kamarudin

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This chapter presents the Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting (GRPB) pilot project in Penang, Malaysia, under the Penang Women’s Development Corporation (PWDC) implemented in collaboration with two municipal councils. It focuses on the component related to community-based projects in two low-cost apartment complexes. The chapter examines the various concepts around participation and their links to the different notions of citizenship; and gender responsive budgeting and participatory budgeting engaging with the community as agents of change. A detailed documentation of the implementation, using the process of dialogical action , then leads to a critical examination of the project’s methodology, challenges and innovations, including its impact on women’s empowerment.

Keywords: Penang, GRPB pilot project, Low-cost apartment complexes, Public expenditure, citizenship, dialogical action

Topics: Civil Society, Gender, Women, Gender-Based Violence, Gender Budgeting Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Malaysia

Year: 2016

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Bakar, Aloyah A., Patahiyah Binti Ismail, and Maimunah Mohd Sharif. 2016. “Localizing Gender and Participatory Budgeting: Challenges of Institutionalization in Penang, Malaysia.” In Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting, edited by Cecilia Ng, 142–62. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace 22. Springer International Publishing.

Authors: Aloyah A. Bakar, Patahiyah Binti Ismail, Maimunah Mohd Sharif

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Institutionalization is the introduction of new practices for sustained change, and it is a complex and difficult process. This chapter analyses the readiness of the two local governments in Penang to institutionalize GRB within their respective organizational milieus. It points out that lobbying with and sensitizing policy makers as change agents in the early stages of its formulation is an important pre-condition of institutionalization. At the same time, local authorities need to create an enabling and supportive environment to make GRPB a reality in their respective bureaucratic contexts although competing priorities might affect actions and commitment. The chapter argues that both a participatory approach and a commitment towards gender integration into budget structures and processes are the way forward.

Keywords: institutionalization, Gender and participatory budgeting, pilot project, municipality, local government

Topics: Gender, Gender Budgeting, Governance Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Malaysia

Year: 2016